The Euler Lecture (''Euler-Vorlesung in Sanssouci'') is a mathematics lecture given at an annual event at the

University of Potsdam The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace of Sanssouci which is known ...

(''Universität Potsdam''). The event, initiated in 1993, is organized by the ''Universität Potsdam, Institut for Mathematik'', the ''

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (german: link=no, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick Wi ...

, Institut für Mathematik'', and the ' with the assistance of several other organizations, including the ''

Freie Universität Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik'', the ''

Technische Universität Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

'', Institut für Mathematic, the ''Zuse-Institut Berlin'' (ZIB), and the ''

Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung The German Mathematical Society (german: Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, DMV) is the main professional society of German mathematicians and represents German mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International M ...

'' (DMV). The mathematical lecturer is selected by a distinguished jury. The event also contains a historical lecture (''Vortrag'') and a musical program supporting the event. The Euler Lecture is named in honor of

Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler ( , ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in ma ...

, who spent the years from 1741 to 1766 in Berlin and during that time wrote approximately 380 works. Among other things, Euler worked for many years as director of the mathematics section at the

Prussian Academy of Sciences The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (german: Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften) was an academy established in Berlin, Germany on 11 July 1700, four years after the Prussian Academy of Arts, or "Arts Academy," to which "Berlin ...

and as a consultant at the court of

Frederick the Great Frederick II (german: Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was King in Prussia from 1740 until 1772, and King of Prussia from 1772 until his death in 1786. His most significant accomplishments include his military successes in the S ...

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...

. The Euler Lecture should not be confused with the Ulf von Euler Lecture, an annual lecture sponsored by the

Karolinska Institute The Karolinska Institute (KI; sv, Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. The Karolinska Institute is consis ...

and named in honor of the Swedish physiologist

Ulf von Euler Ulf Svante von Euler (7 February 1905 – 9 March 1983) was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for his work on neurotransmitters. Life Ulf Svante von Euler-Chelpin was born in ...

(1905–1983).

Euler Lecture

The organizers of the Euler Lecture maintain an archive of lectures starting in 1993.

Historical lecture

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Catherine Goldstein : Catherine Goldstein (born July 5, 1958 in Paris) is a French number theorist and historian of mathematics who works as a director of research at the (IMJ). She was president of L'association femmes et mathématiques in 1991. Education and car ...

, Charles Hermite and the Berlin Mathematicians , - ! 2019 , Christian Gilain , D'Alembert: Mathematics and the Enlightenment , - ! 2018 , Peter Ullrich , Berlin 1828-1855: »von dem anderen Dirichletschen Prinzipe ..datiert die Neuzeit in der Geschichte der Mathematik« , - ! 2017 , Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen , From quadratic forms to general convex bodies and beyond: Minkowskian “inventive art” and mathematical programming , - ! 2016 , Tilman Sauer , »Ich bewundere die Eleganz Ihrer Rechnungsweise« - Einstein und die Mathematik , - ! 2015 ,

Horst Bredekamp Horst Bredekamp (born 29 April 1947, in Kiel) is a German art historian. Life and work Bredekamp studied art history, archeology, philosophy and sociology in Kiel, Munich, Berlin and Marburg. In 1974 he received his doctorate at the Philipps ...

, Die Zeichnung als Denkform: Leibniz und Peirce , - ! 2014 , , »Ich lebe ja in der Tat ganz in Ihrer schönen Wissenschaft« - Mathematisches Publizieren in Deutschland (ca. 1890–1930) , - ! 2013 , , »Er war der Pflichtbewußteste von uns allen« Edmund Landau in Berlin und Göttingen , - ! 2012 , , Gartenkunst und die mathematischen Wissenschaften , - ! 2011 ,

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Reinhard is a German, Austrian, Danish, and to a lesser extent Norwegian surname (from Germanic ''ragin'', counsel, and ''hart'', strong), and a spelling variant of Reinhardt. Persons with the given name *Reinhard of Blankenburg (after 1107 – 11 ...

, Schur und Landau: eine Freundschaft in unmenschlicher Zeit , - ! 2010 ,

Hans Föllmer Hans Föllmer (20 May 1941 in Heiligenstadt, Thuringia, Germany) is a German mathematician, currently professor emeritus at the Humboldt University of Berlin, visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, and Andrew D. White P ...

, Von Berlin nach Paris und Housseras: Wolfgang Döblin (1915-1940) und die versiegelte Formel , - ! 2009 , , Euler und die Musik - wie kann man Wohlklang messen? , - ! 2008 ,

Erhard Scholz Erhard Scholz (born 1947) is a German historian of mathematics with interests in the history of mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries, historical perspective on the philosophy of mathematics and science, and Hermann Weyl's geometrical methods ...

, Von den Anfängen des Zählens typologische Eigenschaften , - ! 2007 ,

Eberhard Knobloch Eberhard Knobloch (born 6 November 1943, in Görlitz) is a German historian of science and mathematics. Career From 1962 to 1967 Knobloch studied classics and mathematics at the University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin, aft ...

, Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) - Zum 300. Geburtstag eines langjährigen Wahlberliners , - ! 2006 ,

Raúl Rojas Raúl Rojas González (born 1955, in Mexico City) is an emeritus professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Free University of Berlin, and a renowned specialist in artificial neural networks. The FU-Fighters, RoboCup, football-playing ...

, 1936 - annus mirabilis der Berechenbarkeitstheorie , - ! 2005 ,

Walter Purkert Walter Purkert (born 22 January 1944 in Trautenau) is a German mathematician and historian of mathematics.Lothar Mertens: ''Lexikon der DDR-Historiker. Biographien und Bibliographien zu den Geschichtswissenschaftlern aus der Deutschen Demokratische ...

, Felix Hausdorff - Mathematiker, Philosoph und Literat , - ! 2004 , Andreas Verdun , Die Entstehung moderner wissenschaftlicher Methoden illustriert an Arbeiten von Leonhard Euler , - ! 2003 , Henk Bos , Descartes' attempt to base certainty of geometry upon mental vision , - ! 2002 ,

Moritz Epple Moritz Epple (born 7 May 1960, in Stuttgart) is a German mathematician and historian of science. Biography Epple studied mathematics, philosophy and physics in Copenhagen, London, and at the University of Tübingen, where he received in 1987 his ...

, Knoten in der Mathematik und Physik des 19. Jahrhunderts , - ! 2001 ,

, 100 Jahre Mathematik in Berlin , - ! 2000 ,

Rudolf Wille Rudolf Wille (2 November 1937 – 22 January 2017) was a German mathematician and was professor of General Algebra from 1970 to 2003 at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt). His most celebrated work is the invention of formal conce ...

, Eulers Speculum Musicum und das Instrument MUTABOR , - ! 1999 , Rüdiger Thiele , Er rechnete, wie andere atmen. Euler und der frühe Funktionsbegriff , - ! 1998 ,

Norbert Schappacher Norbert Schappacher (born 8 October 1950 in Essen) is a German mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010 in Hyderabad. Education and career After secondary educat ...

, Wer war Diophant? , - ! 1997 , Ivo Schneider , Parameter eines Mathematikerlebens zur Zeit von Euler , - ! 1996 , Herbert Pieper , Die Eulersche Identität - eine Brücke zwischen Analysis, Arithmetik und Kombinatorik , - ! 1995 ,

, Das große Spargesetz der Natur: zur Tragikomödie zwischen Euler, Voltaire und Maupertuis , - ! 1994 , Hans-Christoph Im Hof , Geschichte und aktueller Stand der Euler-Ausgabe , - ! 1993 , {{ill, Reinhard Bölling, de , Leonhard Euler - aus der Zeit seines Wirkens in Berlin

References

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